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regram @billnye This just in: a complete image of #LightSail in space! The future of space travel...

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regram @everydayclimatechange Photo by James Whitlow Delano @jameswhitlowdelano for @everydayclimatechange I first traveled to this part of Yunnan in 1997. It was the best time to travel here because little by little swathes of minority territory, particularly Tibetan areas, were opening up to foreigners. In 1997, however, Kawagarbo (Meilixueshan in China) was not yet open to foreigners. Travel beyond Zhongdian, not yet renamed Shangri La, was forbidden. Independent travel beyond Kawagarbo into Tibet Proper (Tibet Autonomous Region) is still forbidden to foreigners. Mingyong Glacier literally tumbles down from the face of the 6,740 m (22112 ft.) Kawagarbo (Meilixueshan in China), the highest peak in Shangri-La and Yunnan. The glacier has receded 200 m (656 ft.) in four years, and 522m (1,713 ft) since 1983. It is sacred to local Tibetans. Deqin, Kham, Tibet (Deqin, Shangri-La, Yunnan, China) At 28.5 degrees north and an elevation of 2700 m (8858 ft), it is the lowest and southernmost glacier in Tibet/Peoples Republic of China. About 1.3 billion people depend on the rivers that flow from the Tibetan Plateau. The glaciers are shrinking, the permafrost is melting and releasing methane, a greenhouse gas, and wetlands are drying out, all due to climate change. In fact, the glaciers of Tibet, according to the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have melted faster than anywhere else on the planet. Tibetan glaciers have lost 15% percent of their mass in the past three decades and global warming could further intensify the melt. #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechangeisreal #tibet #water #glaciers #melting #meltingglaciers #recedingglacier #jameswhitlowdelano Check out our friends @jameswhitlowdelano @everydayafrica@everydaylatinamerica @everydayusa@everydaymiddleeast @everydayiran@everydayeverywhere @azdarya We're beginning to re-post photos with hashtag #everydayclimatechange #climatechange

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Sarah – that’s my name. I am 17 years old and I do enjoy taking pictures. 

Photography is a broad field that many people like getting into nowadays, and I’m glad I put myself into that field. With skill or without skill, we tend to learn something new everyday in various kind of aspect.

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People of Latin American descent are regularly flooded with repetitive questions about who they are as a people and a culture. Whether they come from racist Twitter users or ignorant yet well-meaning colleagues and classmates, these comments only serve to homogenize disparate and unique cultures, as well as to further “other” Latinos in our society. It’s time to put the stereotypes to bed.

The differences between Spanish, Hispanic, Latino, Latinx, Mexican explained

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regram @everydayclimatechange Photo bu @jameswhitlowdelano for @everydayclimatechange A forest fire passed through this section of Yosemite National Park days before. Extensive forest fires have scorched California due to the ongoing severe drought and the encroachment of development on the wild lands of the state. It has gotten to the point in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevadas & the San Gabriels that burnt forest accounts for much of the territory. This week NASA declared that California has one year of water left with no end to this once-in-a-millennium drought in sight. #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechangeisreal #fire #drought #azdarya #forestfire #California #sierras #water #jameswhitlowdelano #COP21 Check out our friends @everydayafrica@everydaylatinamerica @everydayusa@everydaymiddleeast @everydayiran@everydayeverywhere @azdarya We're beginning to re-post photos with hashtag #everydayclimatechange

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Teen scientist harnesses sun power to help Navajo community

New Mexico teen Raquel Redshirt uses everyday materials and the sun to build solar ovens, fulfilling a Navajo community need and winning an award at the Intel ISEF competition.

Growing up on New Mexico’s Navajo Nation, Raquel Redshirt was well aware of the needs of her community. Many of her impoverished neighbors lacked basics such as electricity, as well as stoves and ovens to cook food.

Though resources in the high desert are limited, Raquel realized one was inexhaustible: the sun. “That’s where I got the idea of building a solar oven,” the teen says.

She researched solar ovens and found that most incorporate mirrors or other expensive materials. Raquel wanted to create a design that anyone could easily afford and replicate, using readily available materials.

READ MORE HERE: http://lrinspire.com/2014/06/19/teen-scientist-harnesses-sun-power-to-help-navajo-community/

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Five tips for women and girls pursuing STEM careers 

Many attempts have been made to explain the historic and current lack of women working in STEM fields. During her two years of service as Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department, from 2009 to 2011, Anne-Marie Slaughter suggested a range of strategies for corporate and political environments to better support women at work. These spanned from social-psychological interventions to the introduction of role models and self-affirmation practices. Slaughter has written and spoken extensively on the topic of equality between men and women. Beyond abstract policy change, and continuing our celebration of women in STEM, there are practical tips and guidance for young women pursuing a career in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics.

(1) Be open to discussing your research with interested people.

From in-depth discussions at conferences in your field to a quick catch up with a passing colleague, it can be endlessly beneficial to bounce your ideas off a range of people. New insights can help you to better understand your own ideas.

(2) Explore research problems outside of your own.

Looking at problems from multiple viewpoints can add huge value to your original work. Explore peripheral work, look into the work of your colleagues, and read about the achievements of people whose work has influenced your own. New information has never been so discoverable and accessible as it is today. So, go forth and hunt!

(3) Collaborate with people from different backgrounds.

The chance of two people having read exactly the same works in their lifetime is nominal, so teaming up with others is guaranteed to bring you new ideas and perspectives you might never have found alone.

(4) Make sure your research is fun and fulfilling.

As with any line of work, if it stops being enjoyable, your performance can be at risk. Even highly self-motivated people have off days, so look for new ways to motivate yourself and drive your work forward. Sometimes this means taking some time to investigate a new perspective or angle from which to look at what you are doing. Sometimes this means allowing yourself time and distance from your work, so you can return with a fresh eye and a fresh mind!

(5) Surround yourself with friends who understand your passion for scientific research.

The life of a researcher can be lonely, particularly if you are working in a niche or emerging field. Choose your company wisely, ensuring your valuable time is spent with friends and family who support and respect your work.

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Moonglow by Mikey Mack on Flickr.

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regram @thescienceguy Snow? The Earth's orbit constrains these trees to get on with it. Spring is coming!

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regram @everydayclimatechange Desiccating Deserts: By @aratikumarrao for @everydayclimatechange A sandstorm stings the pre-monsoon air in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. The IPCC has predicted a rise of almost 4degrees Celsius in this area and a fall in rainfall, through the 21st century. For all the bluster of whirling sand dervishes, which usually precedes a veil of #monsoon rain, not a drop fell in this area throughout 2014. It has been a drought year for this part of the Thar, the most populated desert in the world. This drought-hit region straddles the border between Western Rajasthan (India) and Pakistan's Tharparkar region in Sindh. Already existing stresses on scarce water resources will be exacerbated even further in the future by this projected increase in temperature. The traditional inhabitants of the desert are pastoral and the chief economy is animal husbandry --they depend upon scattered sources of water that they find on grazing-routes: shallow wells and fossil-water wells. Lifelines that are drying up fast. The projected increase in temperature, fall in precipitation, and indiscriminate extraction of groundwater (NASA has warned against this misguided removal for agriculture at a rate faster than N.India's aquifers can be replenished by precipitation) in several areas for irrigated farming of thirsty crops, bode dire consequences for the future of this region. #climatechange #climatechangeisreal #globalwarming #deserts #nomads #biodiversity #rajasthan #india #grasslands #water #groundwater -------------------------------- #EverydayClimateChange is pleased to support@DECCgovUK's #BackClimateAction #photography #competition, with #EverydayClimateChange photographer @JshPhotog, in UK, being asked to be on the competition's judging panel. The @DECCgovUK competition: What does Climate Change mean to you? Show us in a picture and share on Instagram or Twitter from 20 Feb – 6 March. Please include hashtag #BackClimateAction. The winner will win a photography workshop & a boat trip to photograph an offshore wind farm! Winner will be announced w/c 16 March. Terms & conditions at bit.ly/BCAPic

#biodiversity #climatechange #deserts #nomads #grasslands #india #competition #water #backclimateaction #groundwater #rajasthan #monsoon #climatechangeisreal #everydayclimatechange #photography #globalwarming

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Simple But Clever Animal Comics By Shanghai Tango

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regram @everydayclimatechange Photo by Rodrigo Baleia ( @rodrigobaleia ). High water of the Rio Negro reach residences near streams. The local population suffers from waters contaminated by garbage and sewage on April, 2012 in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. The huge flood across the Amazon basin affects about 80,000 families in 45 municipalities in Amazonas state. The waters of the Rio Negro reached 29,97, the record level of the last 110 years. The increase in rainfall patterns in the Amazonian headwaters of rivers is related to the effects of La Nina. #ClimateChange #EverydayClimateChange #GlobalWarmingIsReal #GlobalWarming #amazon #manaus #flood #amazon #rainforest #amazonbybaleia #cop2015 #france #BackClimateAction

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regram @everydayclimatechange Photo by @jameswhitlowdelano for @everydayclimatechange Buttress roots reach out wide into the Borneo rainforest floor to support an ancient tree, Sarawak, Malaysia. What does this have to do with climate change? The buttresses, scientists believe, are necessary to support the tree in such thin soil. This tropical rainforest more so than any other on the planet is best viewed as a single living organism. Cut down this forest and it WILL NOT grow back, and there is guaranteed local climate change. Guaranteed. These tropical forests are the lungs of the planet. So, global climate change is adversely effected as well. Inside the forest, photographers, using 400 ISO and the shutter speeds are 1/30 f/2.8 and sometimes 1/15 or 1/8 MIDDAY. The temperatures are cool for the tropics. In a clear cut area, at 400 ISO, the shutter speed of 1/500 at f/16 or f/22. Temps? 35c to 37c, or flirting with 100F. Cut down the forest, the land sizzles, the thin soil washes away, but on a microscopic scale is where the biggest damage occurs. The roots of gigantic rainforest trees cannot absorb certain essential nutrients without the help of specialized bacteria in the soil. The sun fries those bacteria, sterilizes the soil. The trees, like redwoods, often cannot stand alone. Without the protection of the surrounding forest, they are far more likely to be toppled by the wind. Finally, without the surrounding humidity of the forest, the rainforest giants dry out and slowly die. And so the land dies, as oil palm plantations cannot survive without artificial fertilizer. They are, in essense, arborial corn fields: hot, drier, barren save for an undercanopy of grass and a few ferns. In this photo, you are looking at the most diverse ecosystem on the planet and one of the most fragile. 10km (6.2 mi) away, loggers have destroyed the forest, and now it floods there like never before. Forests prevent flooding too by holding onto rainwater. Don't believe me? Go and see. #climatechange #globalwarming #climatechangeisreal #rainforest #deforestation #borneo #malaysia #jameswhitlowdelano

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#redhook #ny #landscape #burritos

#ny #burritos #landscape #redhook

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“A society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated.”

Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via viviresrenacer)

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A lovely story about Romney/Ryan.